Mission Statement: There is a great need for inexpensive, functional upper limb assistive devices. And we are working relentlessly to help make people's dreams of prosthetic limbs become a reality worldwide. In doing so, we help them regain their pride, dignity and self respect.

Background

Hello, my name is Rishab Jain and I attend American Heritage High School. Over the course of three years, I have helped over 50 patients in Peru, India, Venezuela, and US and now I need your donations to help even more.

My inspiration to undertake this mission started as a child when I went to visit my family in India. I would see children with missing limbs begging in the streets for food, but because of their physical imperfections, they were ignored, rejected and mistreated. They were outcasts because of something they could not control, which inspired in me a desire to help them overcome their limitations and achieve their full potential.

To give back to my motherland, we created an outreach mission in India where we helped over 40 patients. I saw firsthand the hardships of these people and it motivated me to help as many people as I can. I also learned the sad truth that there are so many people who need and deserve prosthetic hands and the only way to help them is through a coordinated effort. When, I went to India to provide hands I realized the number of volunteers and organizations I had to work with from friends to Rotary International. I also saw the ubiquity of 3d printers at schools and knew that I had to involve high schoolers in this effort. Therefore, I started this community of high schoolers in the hopes of helping people in need of upper limb prosthetic devices.

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Help us by donating for the cost of filament, material, and shipping needed to provide more 3d printed prosthetic devices to those in need. Also, we are working on more outreach missions and camps throughout the world. So, we need your financial support to hold workshops make hands at schools, purchase materials, schedule medical staff who work with recipients, get the devices and printers to mission sites. Overall, help people live happier and fulfilling lives with an inexpensive, functional, and cosmetically appealing hand.

Also, as a high school student I know that younger generations has the drive, creativity, and intellect to be part of this cause. I also know that many of our schools have started to have 3d printers that could come to good use. That is why Link 3d Hands is also looking for middle school, high school, and college volunteers to use their school's printers to pool the resources needed to give prosthetic hands to all. We are the change of the future so I am calling all youth leaders to be part of our organization by reaching out through https://link3dhands.com/.

We are a charity that relies on goodwill and generosity, and we appreciate any support we can get. Your donations of any size will change lives by allowing us to enable the future with prosthetic hands.

Specifically, your donation will go to support both e-NABLE the Future and Link 3d Hands.

Link 3D Hands will help reach students and make hands. We will build on the e-NABLE Alliance facilitators' guide and make devices based on the latest feedback available. The hands will be checked and tracked by the e-NABLE Living Classroom at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which will offer ongoing help desk support to volunteers and recipients. If someone needs a hand locally, we will make it and give it to them. Link 3D Hands also will ensure that upper limb devices are given to recipients for free by medical professionals during our mission trips. Link 3D Hands will collaborate with appropriate e-NABLE clinical studies that have been approved by Institutional Review Boards. It will collect and share feedback as members of the e-NABLE Alliance.

Link 3D Hands needs your support to reach our main goal:

We also are working to build a network of youth leaders who can combine engineering ingenuity and leadership skills to involve all area high school students in this effort as well. Our goal is to involve students who want to help those in need; therefore, we would like to connect with any high schools or students who are interested so we can spread the word and add young, creative minds to our organization.

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Help me help young people in the community who want to be staff or attendees of e-NABLE STEM Summer 2018 programs at camps, libraries, makerspaces, and more, and encourage them to share their perspectives, facilitator summaries and research in papers, posters and presentations this year in conferences and community publications. Together we can ensure that in 2018 we will help more people faster, create collaborative volunteer groups that include mentors and recipients, and by mentoring volunteers from the start of projects to sharing with the community, the whole e-NABLE community will grow.

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Hi all,

I wanted to do something good and make the world a better place. When I found out that young people in the e-NABLE Community want e-NABLE 2018 STEM Summer camps, activities and trips where they will work on design, creation and/or distribution of devices and research activities.,
I knew I had to help.

That's why I created a fundraiser to support the e-NABLE Alliance and their campaign to
organize STEM e-NABLE activities/workshops and extended programs.

Short programs conduct outreach, including distribution of devices and gathering feedback; others teach basic skills needed and build up to programs teaching the community how to work with old and new device designs.

Day camps will enroll 6-10 children working with a team of 3 youth, 1 adult and 1 educator as team mentors.

Teams of students and adults volunteering in field projects/mission trips in the US and overseas will help young people get devices faster and teach people to repair and modify designs to make devices for themselves and others, and collect and share feedback data that will boost design development.

These projects will grow the whole e-NABLE community and have a lasting legacy - a huge return on anything we can invest! More people will get the arms and hands they need, for free! More people will get access to technology and mentoring. More volunteers will learn about the 5 new designs shared with the community on 12/16 at the e-NABLE Alliance Retreat and Conference, EnableCon2017. More people will be working on projects with the goal of sharing at EnableCon 2018.

If you are wondering how you can make a difference this year, or looking for a community like no other, look what the e-NABLE community has been doing for the past 5 years and consider what this summer programming can do.

Giving online is easy and fast, and your support will make a real difference. I appreciate your help!

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Hi [Donor Name],

Thank you so much for your generous donation to our fundraising campaign to help the e-NABLE Alliance launch Summer STEM programs for kids. Because of you, we'll be able to helping make and gift devices faster to people who need them, and grow the whole community.

Short activities will conduct outreach, including distribution of devices and gathering feedback; others will teach basic skills needed and build up to programs teaching the community how to work with old and new device designs.

Day camps will enroll 6-10 children working with a team of 3 youth, 1 adult and 1 educator as team mentors.

Youth and adults on extended field experiences/mission trips will participate on printing, assembly, distribution and field research in the US and overseas.

By galvanizing around supporting youth programs this summer, we can launch initiatives that support the community throughout the year:

Create collaborative teams, train them to use emerging technologies and use current design files in the community, in leadership, teaching, mentoring, field readiness, citizen science and sharing research as authors, presenters and science journal editors.

Create videos and program facilitator guides for chapters and educators to use year round.

Continue the printer status Open Data project during the summer break.

Help youth prepare to be presenters, authors of posters and papers in e-NABLE's publications and at conferences. Increase the number of devices modified or created and tested and shared as Open Source files..

You're not only helping planners secure facilities, materials, start training and open registration. By supporting our program goals, you're helping people get devices faster. You are making a real difference for young people in the community who want to be staff or attendees of e-NABLE STEM Summer 2018 programs at camps, libraries, makerspaces, and more,

You are also starting them on a path as emerging scientists. We will encourage them to share their perspectives, facilitator summaries and research in papers, posters and presentations this year in conferences and community publications.

Together we can ensure that in 2018 makes the most of its opportunities to grow and serve.

This is such a worthy cause and I'm proud that we're on the same team.

We'll keep you posted on our progress. In the meantime, I recommend that you check out the enablealliance.org site. They're doing great work.

Thanks again for your donation!

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You're amazing--making a difference. Thanks to all who donated to our e-NABLE Summer Kids programs fundraiser so far!